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Irons in the Fire of my Thirty-Third Year

I’ve just completed another trip around the sun. Sometimes its hard to believe I’ve made that journey thirty-two times already. Sometimes I’m shocked its only been thirty-two. Indeed, these last two years I’ve accomplished so much. Its no wonder I’ve started wishing there were twenty-seven hours in a day. To briefly reflect, at thirty my […]

Act III or ‘The Victory Lap’

There is a game I like to play in my head. Its something I do to battle exhaustion at times when it really matters—when I’ve got to keep going just a little bit longer. Mostly I play when I’m running. I’ll have put in four grueling miles, sometimes more, and I know I’m a mile […]

A Blank Page

This morning I am excited. I’m excited and somewhat over-caffeinated and thats alright. The three cups of coffee I’ve already downed are just helping to further fuel this maddening energy. I feel as though I could burst, but I don’t want anything to quell it—this feeling of potential and possibility. Finally, finally I am sitting down […]

One Glorious Month

Somehow an entire month has passed since I started (well, re-started) this project. It was a little terrifying to commit to finishing it publicly but I haven’t regretted it. Now as I’m working away at revamping Chapter Six I want to take a little time to reflect on how this month has gone and where […]

Drama, Melodrama, Betrayal, Humiliation

Where is the line between drama and melodrama? More specifically, can my characters be melodramatic without their actions and attitudes affecting the voice of my writing? Can I write melodrama without melodrama? Its a pair of interesting questions—ones I’m trying to suss out in my rewrite of Chapter Three. Of course there are some clues in […]